The modern manufacturer seeks ways to improve all aspects of production. Many have turned to Machine Data Collection (MDC) to provide deeper insights into what is occurring on the shop floor. Implementing MDC can be challenging, however, considering the age, make and type of CNC machines utilized. This guide will help you plan ahead for an MDC installation and start to consider … [Read more...]

Manufacturing has become a very distributed global enterprise, many of the worlds top producers have facilities all around the globe. This creates unique problems for these complex supply chains. Representing a software company with a very large global presence, we understand this dilemma all too well. To respond to the rapidly changing marketplace, CIMCO has integrated some … [Read more...]

In this case story we will look at a complete MDC and DNC solution installed recently at one of our customers. This case is a great example of how MDC is used to help optimize production processes and how DNC enables data communication on the shop floor.
Our customer's manufacturing facility hosts four Hessapp machines and five Okuma machines setup to work as production … [Read more...]

Both CIMCO Edit and CIMCO DNC Max allow you to communicate with machines but there are significant differences. A common use of CIMCO Edit would be on a laptop that is kept around as a backup in the event of a network or hardware failure, but this is not always the case. We have a number of customers who have a computer at each CNC and use CIMCO Editor to make quick edits, add … [Read more...]